Military Thought articles from April 2006

Military Thought archives from April 2006

Russian Federation military policy for provision of international information security.
April 1, 2006... At the present day, in consequence of the unarrested technological revolution in the IT domain, the pervasive quality changes are taking place in the weapons and military equipment trends of foreign states. Orientation to the designing of...

On the concepts of "military threat" and "military danger" and their correlation in Russia's military security system.
April 1, 2006... Among the conceptual questions concerning the military security of the Russian Federation, the problem of the correlation of military threat and military danger ranks with special prominence. At the same time, in spite of the fact that the...

Policy and military strategy: a unity lesson.
April 1, 2006... One of the most crucial lessons of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), especially for our country leaders, is the understanding of how important it is to have the ability and the aspiration to correctly evaluate, and what in our opinion is...

Submarine forces of the Russian Federation: current status and prospects.
April 1, 2006... Nowadays Submarine Forces of the Russian Federation along with naval missile-carrying aviation continue being one of the main arms of the Navy and the most important tool in naval combat. They include submarines of various classes such as:...

Submarine fleet: shipbuilding problems.
April 1, 2006... The history of Russian fleet is a centuries-old affair. It was the year 1718 when an attempt to build the first Russian submarine as a "concealed vessel," attempt undertaken by the serf self-taught inventor Yefim Nikonov, was registered....

Internal Troops: from past to future.(Internal Guard )
April 1, 2006... Armed units intended to maintain public law and order, ensure internal security and guard sensitive facilities were always a highly important attribute of state power. The Russian Empire's protective organizations were the following: Police,...

Human factor as a basic element of national military power.
April 1, 2006... In recent years, a lot has been said and written about human factor. Human factor-related issues have been widely discussed at every possible level. This is something our country was trying to pin its hopes on in the mid 1980s to evade the...

Military-technical aspects of war prevention.
April 1, 2006... Implementation of the war prevention concept as the keystone of the military-political principles (foundations) contained in the military doctrines of industrially advanced states at the turn of the 21st century requires, with all other...

Main problems of military management theory and the ways to solve them.
April 1, 2006... The "military management" term has been used both in the scientific and everyday languages for a long time. The Encyclopedia of the Military and Naval Sciences dated late 19th century gives one of the first its definitions. It reads that...

Protection of tactical units in a combat operation (battle).
April 1, 2006... Analysis of armed conflicts over the past decade, as well as the main provisions of modern military doctrines adopted in the world's leading countries, points to the growing role that so called basic tactical military units (BTMU)* play in...

Protection of tactical units in the course of operation: methodological aspect.
April 1, 2006... Analysis of the recent war conflicts clearly demonstrated well-seen tendency to increase the role of lower level tactical units (LLTU) in modern combat that is characterized by high density of various fire weapons and massiveness of their...

Military urbanistics and military geography.
April 1, 2006... A retrospective analysis of how Russian and foreign military specialists viewed the problem of struggle for cities and other settlements in forecasted wars, as well as a detailed study of the modern state of possible theaters of operations...

Main vectors in Military Topographic and geodetic support studies.
April 1, 2006... The record of armed forces' involvement in military conflicts indicates that a new character of would-be wars has taken shape as have fundamentally new, more efficient methods of combat operations. The U.S. coalition forces and NATO countries...

Creating means and methods of geodetic support for the Armed Forces.
April 1, 2006... The main task facing the Institute as the basic research organization of the Military Topographic Service (MTS) of the Armed Forces has always been to study the problems of topographic and geodetic support. The key problem in this sense is...

Development of methods and means of providing troops with digital data about terrain.
April 1, 2006... The research works and experiments in the field of cartography automatization held in the 1960s in this country and abroad, resulted in asserting the need of substituting analogue (paper) maps with digital ones. Testing and employment of the...

The legal regulation of the employment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in anti-terrorist warfare.
April 1, 2006... At the present day, terrorism increasingly threatens the security of the individual, the society and the state. The terrorist acts perpetrated in recent years in Moscow, Beslan, Budyonnovsk, Volgodonsk, Buinaksk, Grozny, Volgograd, Vladikavkaz,...

Evolution of Russian-Ukrainian relations: the legal status of the Black Sea Fleet.
April 1, 2006... Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the leaders of former Union republics, which all of a sudden became independent, immediately attempted to "privatize" the Soviet army and navy formations deployed in their territory or to demand...

Countersabotage and antiterrorist struggle in a combat operation.
April 1, 2006... The analysis of the experience of local wars and armed conflicts of recent decades makes it possible to reveal certain tendencies in the development of methods and techniques used in subversive and terrorist activities in a modern combat...

Defense against subversive and terrorist attacks in a combat operation.
April 1, 2006... In local wars and armed conflicts of recent decades, practically every combat operation or battle would involve the situation when the troops had to repulse terrorists' attacks and rebuff various sorts of saboteurs arranging ambushes and mine...

Moot matters of tactics.
April 1, 2006... The military science, including the military art as its essential component, is in a constant state of evolution. The creation of new weapons and their adoption for service, and the changing views on the preparation and conduct of warfare...

More on the systems approach.
April 1, 2006... For a very long time, many scientists have attempted to define the essence of the term "systems approach," but there is still no clear, unambiguous definition. There is only a perception about the systems approach that is based on some rather...

Systems analysis: methodological and meaningful aspects.
April 1, 2006... Systems analysis is one of the youngest methodological tools that became a relatively independent method in its own right in the mid-1900s. Currently the theory and practice of systems analysis continue their rapid development. Different views...

A nontraditional way of information transmission at tactical level.
April 1, 2006... Traditional information transmission systems of tactical control (TC) existing today are base on the use of electromagnetic waves energy (Radio- and wire communications). They have some principled limitations that in particular result in the...

Operation Atrina: history lessons.
April 1, 2006... Geographic peculiarities of the Northern Fleet operation zone force our submarines to proceed to the Northern, Central Atlantic and then to the Mediterranean Sea or other regions of combat activities and patrolling along the only one direction...

Opening up the Arctic region and Russia's submarine fleet.
April 1, 2006... Does Russia need the Arctic region? The question might seem odd and irrelevant now that Russia finds itself in a difficult economic and military-political situation following diverse reforms since the early 1990s. But the answer is not all that...

Active duty of Northern Fleet diesel submarines in the Mediterranean during the Cold War years.
April 1, 2006... The first long-range diesel submarine patrols in the Mediterranean tended to be mainly of the training and exploratory character. Everyone felt like a trainee: the designers, shipbuilders and the submariners themselves. Those, who acquired...

Deployment experience of Pacific Fleet diesel submarines.
April 1, 2006... The Pacific Fleet submarines were most intensively deployed in the 60s-70s of the 20th century. The Cold War peak of the military confrontation between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. fell on this period. At that time, the national-liberation...

Missile salvos from the depth of the ocean.
April 1, 2006... I started my service on board of submarines in 1960 as an assistant to the commander of a K-118 diesel missile submarine with R-13 (SS-N-4) ballistic missiles of D-2 missile system (commander--captain 2nd rank K.B. Kurdin). After that I had a...

Place and role of the 29th Research Institute in the RF Armed Forces scientific-military system.
April 1, 2006... The experience of wars and military conflicts, including the present-day events, shows that the comprehensive topogeodetic (mapping) support provision of the troops (forces) is the critical element of military (combat) operations. Historically,...

The milestones in the history of the 29th Research Institute of the RF MOD.
April 1, 2006... In the mid-30s of the 20th century, the development of the topographical support for troop combat operations and the implementation, in combat conditions, of the activities of the Military Topographic Service (MTS) called for the augmenting of...

Encyclopedia of stratagems.
April 1, 2006... Alexei Voevodin's Stratagems have been issued for the third time now. (1) Though the stratagem term has a modern European definition, its original meaning is associated with the Greek concept of "warfare," "ways of conducting military...